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Postponing surgeries, calling up student nurses, Alabama hospitals enter uncharted territory

Postponing surgeries, calling up student nurses, Alabama hospitals enter ‘uncharted territory’ Updated Dec 17, 2020; Posted Dec 17, 2020 The drive-thru testing site operated by Thrive Alabama in Huntsville reached its testing capacity shortly after opening on June 29, 2020. Demand for COVID-19 tests has increased around the state as Alabama sees record numbers of positive cases and hospitalizations. (Anna Claire Vollers / avollers@AL.com) Facebook Share Hospitals around Alabama have been forced to take steps this week to protect patients and staff as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to rise to record numbers across the state. Southeast Health in Dothan temporarily suspended some elective surgeries. Riverview Regional Medical Center in Gadsden told ambulances it had run out of room in the hospital. And the University of Alabama at Birmingham called some nursing students into service as the hospital struggles with staffing shortages and a high volume of COVID

COVID-19 case numbers, hospitalizations show need for caution

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Alabama jumped by 2,846 Wednesday more than 600 more new cases than Tuesday and the number of people hospitalized with the virus in Alabama reached 2,353, as the first vaccinations were enthusiastically administered in 15 hospitals. Although it was only a two-patient increase over Monday’s 2,351 people hospitalized, that number has increased every day but one since Dec. 7, when the state topped 2,000 inpatients.  “There’s a lot of excitement over the vaccine distribution beginning in the United States, but we all have to remember that large scale distribution is still a few months away,” East Alabama Medical Center spokesman John Atkinson said.

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